(morning writing)

[elainegrey]

I spent much time on Saturday trying to figure out why over ten hours on Friday there was a cancelled order for a $2000 Amazon gift card, three gifts of a Max account on a service i use to myself (charges pending at the bank), and my instagram account alertement me to suspicious activity and was forcing me to change my password. The all used different emails and authentication patterns and it's a struggle figuring out what happened.

It became clear that there is no way that you can get anything out of Amazon or the other company's security people. Amazon kept resetting my password when i attempted to get IP address, payment method, and what purchase system (website? app (which i don't use)? alexa(which i don't use)? I found a stack of others on reddit who had similar exploits around gift accounts

In the end i at least excluded some vectors of attack, added MFA to many more accounts and Christine will take on disputing the bank charges this morning. This morning i woke to find Facebook had changed my password because of suspicious activity.

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I did call my dad and talk to him; it had been a week since i waved off his last minute Easter restaurant lunch. Between feeling sick and the combination of depressing venue and no reservation i couldn't bear the to  join them.

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Mowing mowing mowing all Sunday. Thank heavens for the low humidity with this ridiculous warmth. And thank heavens for the leaves now on the trees because i was generally able to be in the shade for my efforts in the afternoon.

Comments

[annie_r]

omg, what an awful situation to deal with! Have you locked down your credit with the 3 agencies (transunion, etc.) in case of identity theft?